From: stephen@sprunk.org

On 22-Apr-14 08:58, conklin wrote:
> "John Levine"  wrote in message
> news:lj47qj$top$1@miucha.iecc.com...
>>
>>> What about telling the truth for a change?  City buses stop all
>>> over the place and having ridden them many years, I never saw
>>> even a shelter in NYC.
>>
>> You must not have been looking very hard.  There are subway
>> stations with attached bus stations, like this one:
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roosevelt_Avenue_/_74th_Street_
New_York_City_Subway)#Victor_A._Moore_Bus_Terminal
>>
>> It really exists.  I've used it on the way to and from LGA.
>>
>> Or here's a bus shelter in the Bronx, with ticket machines:
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Select_Bus_Service_bus_shelter.jpg
>>
>> Here's one in midtown:
>> http://publictransport.about.com/od/Pictures_Of_Transit/ig/Tr
nsit-Pictures-From-New-York/New-York-Bus-Shelter.htm
>>
>> And here's one in Brooklyn:
>> http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/07/09/blog-tells-the-t
le-of-a-bus-shelter-destroyed/
>
> How nice 2% of stops might have something near them.  Now they need,
> like the RRs, a $60 million station like Raleigh is planning at
> public expense for a couple hundred passengers a day.

A rail stop doesn't need anything more than a platform, which is all
that Amtrak provides in most places; that is cheap.  A bus shelter and
TVM are customer-friendly, cost-effective additions but hardly universal.

If the local taxpayers want to build some extravagant monument to
wasteful spending, as in Raleigh, that is their choice, but it's not
_necessary_, nor should Amtrak be saddled with the cost of such
wastefulness.

S

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